Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things: Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control (Hardcover, 2024)

Chapter 1. Introduction: Practices, Strategies, and Methodologies of Experimental Control in Historical Perspective (Jutta Schickore).- Chapter 2. Christoph Scheiner's The Eye, that is, The Foundation of Optics (1619): The Role of Contrived Experience at the Intersection of Psychology and Mathematics (Tawrin Baker).- Chapter 3. One Myrtle Proves Nothing: Repeated Comparative Experiments and the Growing Awareness of the Difficulty of Conducting Conclusive Experiments (Caterina Schurch).- Chapter 4. Controlling Induction: Practices and Reflections in Brewster's Optical Studies (Friedrich Steinle).- Chapter 5. Carl Stumpf and Control Groups (Julia Kursell).- Chapter 6. A "Careful Examination of All Kind of Phenomena": Methodology and Psychical Research at the End of the Nineteenth Century (Claudia Cristalli).- Chapter 7. Controlling Nature in the Lab and Beyond: Methodological Predicaments in Nineteenth-Century Botany (Karin Nickelsen).- Chapter 8. Controlling the Unobservable: Experimental Strategies and Hypotheses in Discovering the Causal Origin of Brownian Movement (Klodian Coko).- Chapter 9. From the Determination of the Ohm to the Discovery of Argon: Lord Rayleigh's Strategies of Experimental Control (Vasiliki Christopoulou and Theodore Arabatzis).- Chapter 10. Controlling Away the Phenomenon: Maze Research and the Nature of Learning (Evan Arnet).- Chapter 11. Controlling Animals: Carl von Heß, Karl von Frisch and the Study of Color Vision in Fish (Christoph Hoffmann).